Cornpop was a nasty dude. However Cornpop apparently has competitors.
Talking on the NAACP Nationwide Conference on Tuesday in Las Vegas, President Biden recalled one among his finest mates from his childhood.
That good friend – Richard Smith, the previous president of the NAACP’s Delaware department – was nicknamed ‘Mouse’.
“And one among my finest mates, we used to, after I was a lifeguard within the tasks, he was a, his identify was – nickname was ‘Mouse,’” Biden informed the group.
WATCH: Biden says his finest good friend was ’Mouse’ when he was a “lifeguard within the tasks.”
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Biden, Mouse, And Cornpop In The Initiatives
President Biden usually likes to speak about his time working as a lifeguard within the tasks, although it’s debatable as to how a lot road cred comes from palling round with a man named ‘Mouse’ and taking over gang members named ‘Cornpop.’
Richard “Mouse” Smith additionally has talked about Biden’s time as “the one white man” working as a lifeguard within the tasks in Wilmington, Delaware.
“We confirmed Joe that we may settle for white individuals,” Smith stated in a 2017 interview. “Joe understands black of us, poor of us, all of us.”
Biden additionally likes to speak about Cornpop on the identical pool and the way he confronted the gang chief as a result of he wasn’t carrying a swimming cap.
The epic standoff, in line with his model in 2019, concerned Cornpop armed with a rusty straight-edge razor and Biden with a six-foot chain wrapped round his hand.
Cooler heads would ultimately prevail when Biden apologized for calling Cornpop ‘Esther.’ As a result of apologies at all times work after you’ve threatened a gang chief wielding a razor.
It’s, um, fairly a narrative. It’s mind-boggling that he informed this story whereas surrounded by children on the pool.
“CornPop was a nasty dude.”#BidenHarris2024 #Biden pic.twitter.com/ALap0Pzsmu
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Lifeguarding With Furry Legs
That Cornpop video, by the best way, comes from the identical occasion by which Biden informed the group on the pool about how children preferred to play together with his furry legs.
I want I used to be making that up.
“I sit on the stand, and it’s getting sizzling, I’ve obtained furry legs that flip — that — that — that flip — um, blonde within the solar,” he stated. “And the children used to return up and attain within the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and watch the hair come again up once more. They’d have a look at it.”
“So, I discovered about roaches, I discovered about children leaping on my lap, and I’ve liked children leaping on my lap.”
This will’t be actual life…
— Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) December 1, 2019
It’s exceptional that the media noticed clips like this in 2019 however solely simply now in current weeks are overtly questioning about his cognitive talents.